Kogan SmarterHome LX16

I am so very happy with this product. I didn't give it 5 stars but for the money I spent, anything over 3 stars is exceptional! Had it for 24 hours and have played with it a bit. The good parts - it does a good job! Picks up probably 95% of the dirt on my tiled floors. Didn't buy it to do rugs or mopping but it's had a few runs over my short pile rugs and they look better. Very manageable noise level on regular suction on hard floors, noisy on carpet (automatically increases suction but you can adjust it on the app). Love the ability to pick a room or part of a room (kitchen mess anyone?) for a quick tidy up. Haven't tried to program it yet to run overnight etc. Set up was pretty easy. A few goes to get the wifi connected and it will only work on 2.4Ghz not 5Ghz but that wasn't really an issue and once connected seems quite stable. Loved the array of spares that came with the machine and the cleaning tool is simple but effective for sorting long tangling hairs from the roller. Negatives - you can't map several different areas. We have multiple sets of stairs so while 80% of what I bought it for was a single level area, it's a shame it can't map a second and third area (eg. downstairs entrance hall) for use there. You can always just put it in those areas for it to clean without a map so it's still useful, just not quite as useful, but that's splitting hairs. Probably the biggest issue so far is that it did fall down the stairs. We did increase the degree of difficulty by having a small lip approx 1cm high before the edge of the stairs and while it coped with that head on, when it turned sideways and ran parallel to the top stair it fell off that lip and then down about 5 stairs. It seemed to weather the fall quite well so maybe that's a positive as well as a negative lol? I will manage simply by adding an avoid area at the top of the stair. Final negative so far is that when trying to edit rooms (split a single space for example), there are icons on your map to indicate what the robot should do there. That's fine but they don't seem movable so the dots you click and drag to show where the split should happen can get stuck under the fixed icons. Not a big deal and I found a way around, just irritating. All in all I am completely delighted that for such a low price (got it on sale) I have a super functional vac that does exactly what I want. The big vac will still get used from time to time for stairs, rugs, skirtings etc but this takes the heavy lifting out of cleaning the floors on a day to day basis. Would buy again in a heartbeat.